Christian Art Quotes

• As evangelical Christians we have tended to relegate art to the very fringe of life. The rest of human life we feel is more important. Despite our constant talk about the Lordship of Christ, we have narrowed its scope to a very small area of reality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Taken

  "Art & the Bible: Two Essays".

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• When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that work is a work of Christian art. But to look at a work of art and then to make a judgment as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous. It is something we cannot know in any conclusive way. We can know only if it speaks within our own hearts, and leads us to living more deeply with Christ in God.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Art, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

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• What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful

  R. C. Sproul

  Beautiful, Christian, Religious

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• The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

  Andre Gide

  Christian, Art, Poverty

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.284, Routledge

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• In God's world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, World

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the Bible as truth”

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• Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be solely a vehicle for some sort of self-conscious evangelism.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Self

  Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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• A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as "Christian art." That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the "art."

  Zachary Levi

  Christian, Art, Believe

  "The Verge Q+A: Zachary Levi, Star of Chuck, Most Interesting Christian in Hollywood". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.gq.com. March 1, 2010.

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• The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

  Andre Malraux

  Christian, Art, Men

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Art, Today

  Francis August Schaeffer (1973). “Art & the Bible: Two Essays”, Intervarsity Press

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• Rumors and reports of man's relation with animals are the world's oldest news stories, headlined in the stars of the zodiac, posted on the walls of prehistoric caves, inscribed in the languages of Egyptian myth, Greek philosophy, Hindu religion, Christian art, our own DNA. Belonging within the circle of mankind's intimate acquaintance ... constant albeit speechless companions, they supplied energies fit to be harnessed or roasted.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Christian, Art, Stars

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